In the light of Pope Francis' frequent and heartfelt admonitions to bishops, cardinals and all priests that they should "smell their sheep" and identify totally with those who are both spiritually and physically poor and marginalised, I fail to see the logic of dealing with the so-called Bishop of Bling by rewarding him with a secure, well paid and comfortable curial sinecure (The Church in the World, 14 February).
How can such rewarding behaviour possibly change not only how the bishop concerned views his vocation? But, more importantly, how can it change and reform the mindsets of so many other clerics, within and without the Vatican walls, who view their ecclesiastical careers as sleek and comfortable bachelorhoods, in which they are eternally and totally immune not only from the smell but even from the vulgar gaze of the rude and scoffing multitude of the sheep they should be serving?
Edward Butler, Derrydruel Upper, County Donegal
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